My mom had a similar recipe ... she called it raisin cake but the name on the recipe was no eggs, no milk cake ... a family staple for years!

Thanks for sharing the photo with beautiful handwriting. That generation that made do and had pride doing it is a thing of the past. My grandmother, now age 98, had an old christmas card from the Depression era, it was a scrap of old wallpaper folded in half with a clever little poem of how hard times were and no money, so they ripped the wallpaper off to send the greeting.

My mother used to make this cake when I was a kid (I'm 82) but we called it "Boiled Raisin Cake". In the winter we would put the kettle that held the boiled ingredients outside the kitchen door in a snow bank to quickly cool. We always baked it in a tube cake pan, once the oven was heated up in the kitchen wood stove. I am so glad to get this recipe again. Thank you for sharing.

I just love this cake. This cake recipe has been made in my family since the war and I even have it in a WWII cookbook. Hope everyone enjoys it as much as I do.

Very cool and such lovely penmanship. No eggs or butter but it sounds good. Have you made this?

Oh my gosh, I couldnt believe it when I saw this. I have my grandmothers recipe for War Cake, and she called it that too. I remember it being one of our favorite cakes growing up. I make one every Christmas, they are so good and so moist.

and there was also Tomato Soup cake......baked in a tube pan.......cream cheese frosting

I have several of my MILs,recipts in her hand writing,one is for a cornmeal pie, she said that is what they used for a pecan pie, they couldn't afford pecans, I made it once and it did taste like pecans.

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Thanks for the recipe. This was called Poor man's cake when I was a kid.

My mother used to make this cake and I have been looking for this recipe since she died 37 years ago.....I love this cake......now I can pass it down to my children..........Thanks so much..............